biography
pronunciation:
[veeahna]
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| male
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| lived:
| (c. 1578–after 1650)
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| biography:
| Epic poet, born in La Laguna, Canary Islands, Spain. He went to Sevilla to take holy orders, but returned in 1605 with a wife, and in the same year published his well-known epic poem Antigüedades de las Islas Afortunadas de la Gran Canaria, conquista de Tenerife y aparecimiento de la Imagen de la Candelaria (Córdoba, 1604). In free verse, intercalated with octavas reales, the poem is a mélange of historical incident and romantic legend, culminating in a love story which brings together the Guanche and Castilian peoples. The play was the direct and only source of Lope de Vega's play Los guanches de Tenerife y conquista de Canarias. Viana practised medicine in Italy and Spain, producing the Espejo de cirurgía (Sevilla, 1636). |
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